Chapter 3

Question 1

What problems did the Roanoke settlers encounter?

Answer 1

Harsh winters

Question 2

Why did the Jamestown settlers succeed in surviving?

Answer 2

Captain John a Smith forced settlers to work, he built ties with and got food from the local Powhatan people

Question 3

What was the Virginia company?

Answer 3

Joint-stock company

Question 4

Wha is a joint-stock company?

Answer 4

A company in which investors buy stock in return of a share of it’s future profits

Question 5

Did the colonists find gold or riches in Virginia?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

What hardships did Jamestown settlers face?

Answer 6

Hunger, disease

Question 7

What hardships did Jamestown settlers face?

Answer 7

Hunger, disease

Question 8

What was the starving time?

Answer 8

The winter of 1609-16010

Question 9

What crop did they grow in Jamestown?

Answer 9

Tobacco

Question 10

What does expand mean?

Answer 10

To increase in size or number

Question 11

What is a headright?

Answer 11

A 50 acre grant to settlers who paid their own way

Question 12

What is a burgesses?

Answer 12

Elected representative to an assembly

Question 13

What did the burgesses do?

Answer 13

Made laws for the colony

Question 14

How did Virginia become a royal colony?

Answer 14

In 1624 King James to away the charter

Question 15

Why did Jamestown settlers come?

Answer 15

To find wealth

Question 16

Why did the Puritans settle in North America?

Answer 16

They wanted religious freedom and to purify the Church of England

Question 17

What does dissent mean?

Answer 17

To disagree with or oppose an opinion

Question 18

What does persecute mean?

Answer 18

To mistreat a person or group based on their beliefs

Question 19

A group of separatists came to America in 1620. What were they called?

Answer 19

Pilgrims

Question 20

What is a pilgrim?

Answer 20

Someone who undertakes a religious journey

Question 21

What is the Mayflower compact?

Answer 21

A document that set up an orderly government system

Question 22

Who helped the Pilgrims after their first winter when most of them had died?

Answer 22

Native Americans ~Squanto and Samoset

Question 23

In the fall of 1621 what event was celebrated with the pilgrims and Native Americans?

Answer 23

The first thanksgiving

Question 24

What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 24

It gave a sense of rules and government

Question 25

Why did the Sepratists and Puritans leave England?

Answer 25

They wanted religious freedom

Question 26

How was the middle colonies diverse?

Answer 26

People from all around the world came to them because they had good ports

Question 27

What is a patroon?

Answer 27

Landowner in the Dutch colonies that ruled over a large area of land

Question 28

What became New York when a fleet of English ships came to attack it?

Answer 28

New Netherlands

Question 29

How was New Jersey founded?

Answer 29

The duke of York decided to split up New York and gave large amounts of land to two proprietors who named it New Jersey

Question 30

Why did Pennsylvania differ from the other English colonies?

Answer 30

The Quakers who founded the colony, thought that everyone is equal and can follow their own inner light. They also believed in peaceful ways to resolve wars instead of force and fight.

Question 31

What did Penn see Pennsylvania as?

Answer 31

A holy experiment

Question 32

What are pacifists?

Answer 32

People opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes

Question 33

What was William Penn's main purpose for founding the colony of Pennsylvania?

Answer 33

A chance to put his Quaker ideals into practice

Question 34

How was New York governed?

Answer 34

It was a proprietor colony, do someone owned all the land and ruled the government

Question 35

What problems faced Maryland and Virginia?

Answer 35

They experienced many conflicts, like disagreements about religion and how to treat natives and their land

Question 36

What are indentured servants?

Answer 36

Laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for a passage to America

Question 37

How did geography influence the way people lived?

Answer 37

It influenced the way they lived because depending on the weather and soil and growing seasons they could farm different crops

Question 38

What is the act of Toleration?

Answer 38

It ensured that protestants and Catholics could worship freely

Question 39

Why did Nathaniel Bacon oppose the colonial government?

Answer 39

Because it was dominated by easterners

Question 40

What factors contributed to the growth of the Carolinas?

Answer 40

Nirth Carolina had great ports, they grew tobacco, sold timber and tar, and South Carolina had very fertile land and a long growing season, they also became successful in trade in deerskin, lumber, and beef thrived

Question 41

What is a constitution?

Answer 41

A list of fundamental laws to support a government

Question 42

Why did John Oglethorpe form Georgia?

Answer 42

To give debtors and poor people a second chance

Question 43

What is a debtor?

Answer 43

Person or country that owes money